For years, digital technology has provided business leaders with a powerful tool to increase efficiencies and deliver growth. Despite value creation sourced from digital technology, some companies still considered it optional -- until faced with the reality of...
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Inhouse Software Development: Friend or Foe?
Proprietary Software Development can be a Significant Asset or can Impede Growth and Agility. Here are some signs we look for when we look under the Hood of a Software Engine. […]
IT Due Diligence Checklist: Must-Assess Technology Elements Prior to Any Acquisition
Due diligence — technology due diligence specifically — is an important part of the M&A process. It has become essential as investors follow the Digital Transformation path. The output provides the risk and potential value of technology in relation to your...
Understanding Technical Debt (+ Underlying Risks When the Bill Comes Due)
Similar to any credit card, the bill for a company’s technical debt will always come due. And, just like credit card bills, it’s wise to pay your bill promptly. Instead of interest charges, failure to keep your technical debt in check leads to downtime from outages,...
Digital Maturity: What It Is, How to Achieve It, and the Digital Maturity Model to Drive Business Transformation
Before you learn to run, you must learn to walk. Before you take leaps in business, you must evaluate where you are today. Digital technologies are no different. Understanding your company’s digital maturity is the first step in driving value – and profitable business...
The New Hybrid Workforce: Maximizing Outcomes with a Return-to-Work Plan Backed by Technology
While the future of work had encompassed remote and hybrid work models pre-pandemic, the shift to these working models is here to stay. According to Accenture, “Responsible leaders must move beyond physical location to shape the future of work by giving people...
Introducing PIP’s New CEO: Dave Rutkowski
From the founding of Android and the launch of LinkedIn, to the release of iTunes and the first Blu-ray Disc prototype player, 2003 held a number of digital milestones. It’s also the year I co-founded Performance Improvement Partners. With Blu-ray Discs having come...
55+ Must-Know Data Analytics Statistics for 2021: Driving Business Value With Analytics and Big Data
“Trust your gut.” It’s advice that holds value in life and business. Yet, when it comes to making decisions that guide strategic business outcomes — the ones that will make or break a company’s growth — gut feelings alone aren’t enough. Data Analytics Statistics...
Celebrating Women in Private Equity
Since 1911, women have been celebrated during March, International Women’s Month, in some way, shape, or form. What started off as International Women’s Day – which wasn’t formally commemorated by the United Nations until 1975 – quickly transitioned into Women’s...
IT Due Diligence Transformed: Driving More M&A Value Creation with Technology
More than ever, technology is vital to business growth. Thanks to the lockdown, digital transformation has accelerated at a pace once thought unimaginable: A McKinsey study illustrates how Covid-19 has "pushed companies over the technology tipping point," speeding up...
2021 Microsoft Breach: What the Attack Means for PE Firms and Portfolio Companies
We are consumed by our emails every day—on our laptops, our desktops, our phones—and Microsoft is the preferred email platform for many companies nationwide. And for an estimated 60,000 of these companies, this ‘key player’ was the target of a massive data breach that...
2021 IT Spend: Top 5 Trends (+ Implications for Business Growth)
Throughout 2020, businesses saw increased awareness in technology investments and cybersecurity threats as corporations navigated work-from-home and lockdown mandates. This need to invest in tech to increase – and protect – business value is not slowing down; it is...
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